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This Lib Guide has been conceptualized, designed, and created by Sonal Mithal Modi, Academic Hourly, International and Area Studies Library.

World Heritage Sites in India

This image is a graphic illustration of World Heritage sites in India, arranged in accordance with their nomination criteria. Click on the image to see a larger and easier to read version in a new window. Clicking on individual heritage sites on the image links back to a page on the LibGuide, which provides information about resources in the library relevant to that particular site.

CONA is an initiative of The Getty Research Institute and aims to compile titles, attributions, depicted subjects, and other metadata about works of art, architecture, and cultural heritage, both extant and historical. Metadata is gathered and linked from museum collections, special collections, archives, libraries, scholarly research, and other sources.

Online Image Database

The web presentation of the AIIS photographic archive is a joint venture of the AIIS and the Digital South Asia Library program. Contains four databases: architecture, sculpture, painting, numismatics.

The collection is at the University of Minnesota and includes General Collection (maps, illustrations and photographs dating from the 18th through the 20th century); Journal of Indian Art (seventeen volume publication from 1886 and 1916); Stereoscopic Images of India.